Month: July 2023

(A comprehensive overview of who will be attending the Synod discussions…) Article by Gerard O’Connell. The Synod on Synodality is officially the 16th ordinary assembly of the synod of bishops,…

The art of kissing:  I like the idea that Victor Manuel Fernandez has been appointed Head of DDF (formerly CDF). He might be rather different. Did he write a book…

Western People 27.6.23 I write a lot. Now in retirement writing is (mainly) what I do. Sometimes writing seems almost effortless as words pour themselves on to a page. Sometimes…

Pope Francis announced a consistory for the creation of new cardinals from around the world to be held at the Vatican on 30 September 2023. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2023-07/pope-announces-consistory-for-creation-of-new-cardinals.html

List of Synod Participants Published Dear Friends, The full list of the participants attending the first session of the Universal Synod in Rome this October was published during a press…

From the crowded city streets to the busy town hall square, from the local village community to the crofter’s moorland cottage we find human beings going about their business. Some…

Seán O Conaill asks why the synodal discussions of 2022 in Ireland came to a year-long pause, after highlighting ‘a crisis in the transmission of faith’ and ‘serious weaknesses in…

Tue 4th July Beneath the religious veneer A tour operator who specialized in pilgrimages had his eyes opened on one particular trip. Various individuals had been organizing groups for places…

Following on from Bernard Cotter’s multilingual ‘welcome notes’ in today’s Presider’s Page Pádraig McCarthy forwarded a few more handy hints – words of welcome…

I’ll live ‘til I die (Aidan O’Hara on the life of Delia Murphy): Delia Murphy: From Claremorris to Chapelizod and many places in-between. That farm in Jasper, Ontario. And of…